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Volunteers Continue to Risk Their Lives to Save Animals Amid Ongoing War in Ukraine

Volunteers Continue to Risk Their Lives to Save Animals Amid Ongoing War in Ukraine

January 13, 2023January 7, 2023 Supertrooper 2 Comments

Volunteers in Ukraine have been risking their lives to save and rescue abandoned animals amid the ongoing war. It has now been nearly one year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but volunteers have not given up helping abandoned animals. The Yampil Zoo in the eastern Donetsk region was liberated by Ukrainian forces on September […]

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Sick Mountain Lion Cub Named Holly Rescued in Northern California

Sick Mountain Lion Cub Named Holly Rescued in Northern California

December 30, 2022December 24, 2022 Supertrooper Leave a comment

Wildlife officials rescued a critically ill mountain lion cub in Northern California whom veterinarians named Holly for the holiday season. The cub is now being treated in intensive care, according to the Oakland Zoo. The cub was found by a Santa Cruz resident on her property, and she altered the state Department of Fish and […]

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Four chimpanzees shot dead after sparking panic when they escaped from Swedish zoo

Four chimpanzees shot dead after sparking panic when they escaped from Swedish zoo

December 19, 2022December 17, 2022 Supertrooper 1 Comment

Five chimpanzees sparked fear after escaping from their zoo enclosure before four were shot dead. The escape of the five chimps happened yesterday at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden. The spokesperson for the zoo, Annika Troselius, told the Swedish media outlet Expressen that the animals were forced to be euthanised due to lack of a tranquiliser […]

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Major win! US Senate passes the Big Cat Public Safety Act

Major win! US Senate passes the Big Cat Public Safety Act

December 16, 2022December 9, 2022 Supertrooper Leave a comment

In a major advance in our long fight against the abuse of captive big cats, the U.S. Senate just passed the Big Cat Public Safety Act (H.R. 263/ S. 1210), a bill we have championed for years because it prohibits keeping big cats as pets and also bans contact between big cats and the public. […]

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Wildcats could be released in England for first time in hundreds of years

Wildcats could be released in England for first time in hundreds of years

November 30, 2022November 26, 2022 Supertrooper Leave a comment

Wildcats could be released in England for the first time in hundreds of years as the Wildlife Trusts recruit an expert to help introduce them back into the wild. After being hunted to extinction, the European wildcat is now the UK’s rarest native mammal. They are larger than the domestic cat, which are bred from […]

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Interesting Animals to Watch at the Zoo

Interesting Animals to Watch at the Zoo

November 10, 2022November 10, 2022 Supertrooper Leave a comment

Have you ever visited a zoo only to find that all the animals are sleeping or inside their shelters? Visiting early in the morning is a good way to help ensure the animals are active and awake, but nothing will guarantee active animals. However, no matter when you visit or what the weather is like, […]

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Rare wolves headed to South Carolina from Ohio as fight to prevent extinction ramps up

Rare wolves headed to South Carolina from Ohio as fight to prevent extinction ramps up

October 18, 2022October 15, 2022 Supertrooper 2 Comments

By next spring, visitors to a South Carolina nature preserve may get a glimpse of one of the world’s rarest animals. Brookgreen Gardens expects three red wolves to be shipped from a zoo in Ohio to the Georgetown County nature center as part of an effort to revive the critically imperiled species in South Carolina […]

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All Bears are Omnivores Like Humans, New Study Suggests

All Bears are Omnivores Like Humans, New Study Suggests

October 13, 2022October 8, 2022 Supertrooper Leave a comment

“Bears are not carnivores in the strictest sense like a cat where they consume a high-protein diet,” said Washington State University’s Professor Charles Robbins. “In zoos forever, whether it’s polar bears, brown bears or sloth bears, the recommendation has been to feed them as if they are high-protein carnivores. When you do that, you kill […]

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